In honor of Sun’s decision to rename Java 1.5 to Java 5.0 I am officially renaming iRooster 1.2 to be iRooster version 20.0. Also, in honor of Apple, this release must be referred to as iRooster XX. I intend to release iRooster XXX within a few mo...
This has been a pretty damned good week for me: Four day weekend. My birthday is on Sunday (22, in case you were curious). New car tomorrow. Massage tomorrow at four. Finally done with performance reviews. Visual Studio 2005 Beta 1 f...
WWDC might be catching most of the news right now, but Microsoft has its own developer event going on now too. TechEd Europe in Amsterdam just got started with a terrific keynote and some very cool product announcements. You can now download free ...
So a multi-billion dollar company introduces its sleek and sexy new operating system today. Wall Street yawns and drops its stock price by 3%, and tons of this company’s users cry foul over the 3rd party applications being driven out of the market...
I ended up purchasing a Toyota Scion tC last week. I’m incredibly pleased with the purchsae; the car has power everything standard, AC standard, keyless entry standard, 17” alloy rims and the same tires they put on a $30,000 Lexus, a decent speake...
My 1995 Mazda 626 is horked. And I mean completely a goner. I was in an accident 6 weeks ago that damaged the bumpers and screwed up the trunk. I finally took the car into the shop to have it looked at last week only to find out that it was deeme...
I’m banging out a little application on Mac OS X in Obj-C/Cocoa currently. With any luck, I will have this done in the near future, and I’ll sell a few copies per month. I tend not to have to use the documentation for NSImage that often; iRooster ...
I am trying to make things right in the world again. In a fit of despair I emailed Ben Folds’ brother, Chuck Folds. “Dear Chuck,” I write, “I am a freaky psychopath trying to right a great karmic imbalance after mystery musician bought my software...
So I just had someone really unexpected buy iRooster. Suffice it to say, I really don’t like his music, he’s been on TRL a lot, and you’ve undoubtedly heard of his band. Weird. Just profoundly fucking weird. Anyway, I salute you, mystery musician....
I took my car into the shop today to get it fixed. Finally. I get rear-ended a month ago and I finally find the time to fix my damned car. Anyway, I got a friggin’ Volvo S60 from the rental car place out of the deal. I’m going to only have to pay ...